The Centuries Surround Me with Fire (1976)
• January 11th, 1976 • 0h 47min
Documentary
Overview
A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.
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